Dear Listers,
We, at the Bavarian Geological Survey want to use alternative media to
distribute and document geological maps and geological data. Before there
was only the usual analog paper map and booklet for explanations.
Now, we want to produce a kind of interactive CD-ROM where the text
explanations and features on the map are interlinked. As a very broad
approach we thought of a web-style product where the user can use hotlinks
to navigate through the informations, get popup explanations etc. . The
product would be static and self contained, no connection to any data server
is intended.
The user should be able to display various map layers, klick on a map object
to get information displayed (either a database table or a chapter in the
explanation or even a list of possible links) or the other way round should
be possible: klick on a hyperlink in the explanation and have the related
map object displayed.
Since I have absolutely no experience with development of web pages, I would
like to ask the list about the product we would need to develop such a
CD-ROM (i.e FrontPage for the design of the web pages, MapXtreme or MapX for
the map components, product from other vendors). ? Is the intended approach
feasable, realistic or appropriate at all or would somebody recommend a
complete different design of such a product. Does anybody have experiences
with similar projects ?
Are there any licensing issues to be considered using map components
distributed on CD-ROM ?
Any comments, suggestions would be very welcome.
Thomas G�lden
Geologist
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